Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Every young person needs some adult who's just wild and crazy about them!

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.